Polkadot Digest 21 Sep 2022

Polkadot News

The next parachain lease auction begins tomorrow at block 12_164_800 (~ 22:24 UTC) Polkadot/Substrate Portal

With 23 days left to vote, Referendum 74, aiming to open several HRMP channels to Statemint, is passing unanimously. Polkassembly

With 5 days left to vote, Referendum 75, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot relay chain runtime to v9820 is passing by a wide margin. Polkassembly

Note that Referendum 75 has been fast-tracked by the Technical Committee. If passed, it will execute after only 400 blocks (~ 40 minutes). Governance · Polkadot Wiki

Kusama News

Entering the Ending Period today, Quartz by Unique is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction. Polkadot/Substrate Portal

Referendum 230 is currently passing with 97% in favor with four days left to vote. This is a simple referendum making a batch call to remark “Expect chaos”. Bootstrap ONE-T Nomination Pools: STEP 1 (testing the anon proxies)

It is being used as a proof of concept to test how anonymous proxies can make decisions via governance - see the link above for details.

Motion 544, funding a Treasury Proposal to dub Polkadot Decoded 2022 videos to Spanish, has passed Council vote. Polkassembly